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How the Body Ages, Part 1: Cardiovascular, Respiratory, and Musculoskeletal Systems

SERIES OVERVIEW: In the 21st century, people are living longer, healthier lives. Even though aging is a natural process which often entails physical or mental degeneration, older adults, like people of any age, can strive for maximum quality of life. Nurses and others providing care to older adults, often play a key role in maintaining, and, when possible, increasing, active participation in life in order to promote the physical, mental, and emotional health of those they care for. This series provides nurses and other healthcare workers with a description of how the aging process affects the major body systems, along with practices and strategies that can be used to preserve their functions. OVERVIEW: This program discusses the changes that occur in the cardiovascular system, the respiratory system and the musculoskeletal system. Understanding these changes can be crucial to helping you assist older adults maintain their quality of life.

How the Body Ages, Part 2: Central Nervous System, The Senses, and Emotions

This program provides nurses and other healthcare workers with knowledge and tools to understand the changes that occur in the central nervous system, the senses, and the emotions of the aging patient. Understanding these changes can be crucial to helping you assist older adults maintain their quality of life.

How the Body Ages, Part 3: Gastrointestinal, Genitourinary, and Integumentary Systems

This program provides nurses and other healthcare workers with knowledge and tools to understand the changes that occur in the gastrointestinal, genitourinary, and integumentary systems of the aging patient. Understanding these changes can be crucial to helping you assist older adults maintain their quality of life.

Intravenous Therapy: Basics and Venipuncture

Over 90% of hospital patients receive IV therapy, including medication, nutrition, electrolytes, and blood. These life-giving fluids are administered through an I.V. and can mean the difference between life and death for a patient.

This program describes the basics of intravenous therapy and demonstrates the correct technique for performing a venipuncture to initiate intravenous therapy.

After completing this course, the learner should be able to:

Describe the uses of I.V. therapy
Identify appropriate sites for venipuncture
Identify equipment used to provide I.V. therapy
Perform a venipuncture

Intravenous Therapy: Pediatrics

SERIES OVERVIEW: Over 90% of hospital patients receive intravenous therapy, including medication, nutrition, electrolytes, and blood. These life-giving fluids are administered through an I.V. and can mean the difference between life and death for a patient. This series covers the basics of intravenous therapy, including its uses, venipuncture, routine care, complications, and I.V. therapy for pediatric patients. The programs in this series are: Intravenous Therapy: Basics and Venipuncture - Intravenous Therapy: Routine Care and Discontinuation - Intravenous Therapy: Recognizing and Treating Complications - Intravenous Therapy: Pediatrics OVERVIEW: Providing intravenous therapy for infants and children offers unique challenges and may have a different rationale for the I.V. therapy than with an adult. This program demonstrates and describes I.V. therapy for pediatric patients.

Intravenous Therapy: Recognizing and Treating Complications

SERIES OVERVIEW: Over 90% of hospital patients receive intravenous therapy, including medication, nutrition, electrolytes, and blood. These life-giving fluids are administered through an I.V. and can mean the difference between life and death for a patient. This series covers the basics of intravenous therapy, including its uses, venipuncture, routine care, complications, and I.V. therapy for pediatric patients. The programs in this series are: Intravenous Therapy: Basics and Venipuncture Intravenous Therapy: Routine Care and Discontinuation Intravenous Therapy: Recognizing and Treating Complications Intravenous Therapy: Pediatrics OVERVIEW: This program will demonstrate procedures for identifying complications of I.V. therapy and making appropriate interventions.

Intravenous Therapy: Routine Care and Discontinuation

This program demonstrates the procedures for the routine care and the discontinuation of intravenous therapy.

After completing this course, the learner should be able to:

List items to note during a routine I.V. assessment
Describe changing a peripheral catheter dressing
Change an infusion container
Change an administration set
Describe the process and considerations for administering medications through an I.V.
Change the dressing on a central venous catheter
Describe the process for discontinuing a peripheral I.V. site

Nursing Assessment: The Nervous System, Part 2: Objective Data

Objective assessment of the nervous system is an extensive process involving assessment of each of the 12 cranial nerves, cerebellar function, the sensory system, reflexes, and mental status. At each step, specific tests must be perform with results documented, always with an alertness for abnormal neurological findings that will require additional follow-up evaluation. Knowledge of these specific tests, and the ability to identify abnormal results is an important skill for the nurse to develop. This program demonstrates and describes a step-by-step approach for collecting objective data for use in an assessment of the nervous system.

Nursing Assessment: The Cardiovascular System, Part 2: Objective Data

Although pumping blood throughout the body to deliver oxygen and nutrition, and remove waste seems like a simple task, it involves complex processes that, if fail, can literally mean the difference between life and death for a person. The nurse must be able to skillfully collect objective data on the various components of the cardiovascular system. This program demonstrates and describes a step-by-step approach for collecting objective data for use in an assessment of the cardiovascular system.

Nursing Assessment: The Digestive System

Gastrointestinal complaints and concerns about diet are high on the list of reasons people seek medical assistance. For this reason, it’s important for the nurse to be able to perform a skilled assessment of the digestive system. This program provides a review of the anatomy of the digestive system, then demonstrates and describes a step-by-step approach to assessing the digestive system.

Nursing Assessment: The Key to Quality Patient Care

OVERVIEW: The nurse often serves as the eyes and ears of the patient’s healthcare team, as he or she has the most frequent direct and prolonged patient contact. This frequent contact is a primary reason it is important for a nurse to be highly adept at patient assessment. A detailed assessment is part of every initial contact and is often referred to as the intake or admission assessment. OVERVIEW: This program demonstrates and describes the characteristic approach and “tools” used in a system-based assessment of a patient.

Nursing Assessment: The Musculoskeletal System

The musculoskeletal assessment focuses on body structure and movement. Pain, injury, and mobility issues often cause an individual to seek medical assistance for this reason, it’s important for the nurse to be able to perform a skilled assessment of the digestive system. This program provides a review of the anatomy of the musculoskeletal system, then demonstrates and describes a step-by-step approach to a “top down” assessment of the musculoskeletal system.

Nursing Assessment: The Nervous System, Part 1: Anatomy and Subjective Data

Because of its complexity, assessment of the nervous system begins with a good understanding of the components of the central and peripheral nervous system. And, because sensations can be difficult to measure, subjective data is a more critical part of assessment of the nervous system than other body systems. For these reasons, it’s important for the nurse to understand the components of the nervous system be able to be skilled at collecting subjective data. This program provides a review of the anatomy of the nervous system, then demonstrates and describes a step-by-step approach for collecting subjective data for use in an assessment of the nervous system.

Nursing Assessment: The Respiratory System

OVERVIEW: The nurse often serves as the eyes and ears of the patient’s healthcare team, as he or she has the most frequent direct and prolonged patient contact. This frequent contact is a primary reason it is important for a nurse to be highly adept at patient assessment. A detailed assessment is part of every initial contact and is often referred to as the intake or admission assessment. OVERVIEW: This program demonstrates and describes a step-by-step approach to assessing the respiratory system.

Nursing Assessment: The Respiratory System

OVERVIEW: The nurse often serves as the eyes and ears of the patient’s healthcare team, as he or she has the most frequent direct and prolonged patient contact. This frequent contact is a primary reason it is important for a nurse to be highly adept at patient assessment. A detailed assessment is part of every initial contact and is often referred to as the intake or admission assessment. OVERVIEW: This program demonstrates and describes a step-by-step approach to assessing the respiratory system.

Protecting Your Body At Work, Part 1: Your Muscles and Bones

SERIES OVERVIEW: In an average workday, healthcare workers are required to stand or sit for long periods of time and lift heavy, cumbersome weight, often non-ambulatory patients, sometimes in awkward positions or in confined spaces such as bathrooms. As a result, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that healthcare workers have the highest rate of work-related musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) of all occupations. This series helps healthcare workers protect themselves from these injuries through an understanding of basic body mechanics, leverage, balance and the force of gravity to help move more safely, and through the use of lifting strategies and assistive devices to prevent injury. OVERVIEW: This program will explain how the muscles and bones of the body work together to move, and describes common back injuries that can occur from moving incorrectly.

Protecting Your Body At Work, Part 2: The Mechanics of Lifting and Moving

This program demonstrates and describes the mechanics of lifting and moving weight, including using appropriate muscle groups, using the center of gravity, and balance.

Protecting Your Body At Work, Part 3: Moving Patients Safely

This program demonstrates and describes ways healthcare workers can maintain their own safety and avoid injury when they move, turn, and ambulate patients, and when to obtain the assistance of another person or a lifting device.

Recognizing Elder Abuse: Helping Keep Residents Safe

Elder abuse is a serious problem in America. Recent studies have shown an increase in abuse over the last decade. Each year between one and two million elderly citizens are victims of abuse and neglect in America. It is widely accepted that this data is incomplete, but the statistics call attention to the seriousness of the problem. As mandatory reporters of abuse and suspected abuse, nurses must be familiar with the risk factors that can lead a caregiver to be abusive, the types and signs of elder abuse, what to do if elder abuse is suspected. This course provides the learner with this information.

Overview:

This program describes the importance of recognizing elder abuse, both assist in the patient's continuing care and to avoid legal implications.

Objectives:

After completing this course, the learner should be able to:

Describe types and signs of elder abuse.

Identify factors that put elders at risk of becoming abused.

Identify factors that put caregivers at risk of becoming abusive.

Describe the steps that should be taken if elder abuse is suspected.

Identify when reporting is necessary, and how and where to report suspected abuse.

04/02/2012 Update: This activity was developed for nurses and other professional healthcare providers to identify and manage suspected and actual cases of elder abuse.

The Cardiovascular System, Part 1: Anatomy and Subjective Data

Although pumping blood throughout the body to deliver oxygen and nutrition, and remove waste seems like a simple task, it involves complex processes that, if fail, can literally mean the difference between life and death for a person. For these reasons, the nurse must understand the components of the cardiovascular system, and be able to skillfully collect subjective data on its condition. This program provides a review of the anatomy of the cardiovascular system, then demonstrates and describes a step-by-step approach for collecting subjective data for use in an assessment of the cardiovascular system.